American Horror Story: Murder House

Over the course of the series I have been following the main character Jacob Portman. I also have taken notes about character development. I have been paying attention to character attributes, interactions, and perceptions. Character attributes are describing the main character like the gender, emotions, physical, personality, and stuff like that. Character interactions are interactions with the environment, themselves, and others. Character perceptions are perceptions with others, themselves, and with the setting/environment. I have taken notes about all of these things and how the character involved throughout the course of the

I will focus on areas such as Bill Sikes behaviour towards others, how characters around Sikes react when he is there and how backgrounds and

In the book “Dollhouse Murders” by Betty Ren Wright the main character is a developing young girl with a mentally handicapped sister, she changes from a snotty brat to a nice competent young woman. Making the development of said sister crucial to the story, a brief summary of the book would help a reader before jumping in and just reading. The year is 1957 grandmother and grandfather Treloar are murdered at home and their daughter Clare was at the movies with her friends. Twelve-year-old Amy is having difficulties at home being responsible for her brain damaged sister. While visiting her Aunt Clare at the old family home, she finds a haunted dollhouse in the attic a copy of the family home. The dolls mysteriously move around but her aunt won't listen to Amy that the dolls are trying to tell her something. Amy researches old news reports where she discovers a family secret-the murder of her grandparents- grandma and grandpa Treloar.. Amy grows to accept her sister and to understand that Louann is more capable to do normal things than she had first thought.

Analyze characters settings, events, and ideas as they develop and interact within a particular context

2. Begin by listing your character’s experiences. If you have many, list just the four most

In “The Haunting of Hill House”, Jackson uses a third person point of view in order to create an ambiguous feeling during the supernatural experiences which leads to confusion of weather the novel falls under the sub-genre female gothic, or not. Jackson starts the novel with a very powerful quote: “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.” (1). That famously known quote is indeed very ambiguous, that evokes suspense. The sub-genre female gothic conventions consist of an old haunted house, mystery and suspense, supernatural experiences, women distress during a transition to adulthood or motherhood, repressed emotions, an aspect of feminism, heroic male figure, dark, and horror. The Haunting of Hill House consists of some of the female gothic conventions but lacks some too.

5.2 One way to examine plot is to determine what type of conflict it entails. The classic divisions are: (1) person vs. person; (2) person vs. society, (3) person vs. nature, and (4) person vs. self. Often, more than one of these types of conflict occurs in a story. Using this analysis, briefly describe the conflicts in this story and classify it according to the categories set out above. (1) Quentin vs. Margo

looks at how the director choose to introduce the situation the characters face, the conflict that happens and the resolution of the story.

me to develop my theme by showing how each character handles the situation given to

Analyse how the lack of a clear outcome in at least TWO short stories you have studied makes the stories successful for you:

Tate Langdon, is the main villain of the American’s Horror Story Franchise who has had a long history of abuse and psychotic episodes throughout his season. Tate Langdon started off as an innocent child, but in the end turned into a serial killer. The road to his first killings can be easily traced, and it all starts with the murder house itself. While the show depicts the house Tate grew up in as a supernatural hot spot for evil, when looking at his life from a realistic vantage point there is a vast amount of information to paint Tate with numerous probable disorders.

Horror films are movies that aim to elicit a strong physiological reaction in the viewer, such as raised heartbeat and fear. Three horror films by the names of Psycho, Scream and The Messengers will be analysed and compared to an episode of the popular children’s show Shaun the Sheep. Five elements will be addressed in this analysis, those being camera techniques, Mise-en-scene, Editing, Lighting and Sound.

The fear of and execution of witches isn't only an American horror story, this particular hunt was in place in England before. In 1542 parliament made witchcraft a capital crime, and between the years of 1645-1647 several hundred were hanged(Karlsen 2). Although in theory, men and children could be witches but still ninety percent of the witches hanged in England were women. The country feared the witches because of the belief that they caused harm on neighbors and properties, also called maleficium(Karlsen 6). Because of this, everything from deaths to doing domestic chores too quickly, led to the belief of being a witch (Karlsen10). But the witches of England were evolving into something else in New England. Instead of being just poor woman, that were a threat against the property and neighbors; New England deemed a witches ultimate threat to be the relationship with the devil (Karlsen 4). Witches are deemed to be heretics and thus the enemy of society and god, who recruited people for the devil to destroy the Puritan church (Karlsen 10).

Character Analysis: Give your ideas about the main characters(s). Include what you like and dislike about the characters and why they deserve praise or criticism. Does the author intend for you to like/dislike them? How do you know?

The A.B.C Murders by Agatha Christie was one of the first truly good stories about a serial killer. It starts with Hercule Poirot receiving detailed letters about murders that are about to be committed and signed A.B.C. He shows his friend Arthur Hastings who has just arrived back in London from South America. There has now been three letters sent by A.B.C and each murder is being carried out in alphabetical order. Alice Ascher, killed in her tobacco shop in Andover, Elizabeth "Betty" Barnard, a flirty waitress killed on the beach at Bexhill, and Sir Carmichael Clarke, a wealthy man killed at his home in Churston. The only thing connecting the murders is the ABC Railway guide is left face down at the crime scenes. The police force who has been